This is a video of a technician climbing up to the top of a transmission tower to do some maintenance work. I always assumed there were specific tools or safety precautions in place to protect them, but nope, they just climb up, dragging their toolbox on a rope behind them. No harnesses or anything. Well [...]...

In a push to get people to actually use their site, Twitter has unveiled a new site redesign with a dual panel layout allowing easier and more intuitive navigation. Now you can click on an individual tweet and see more info about it, as well as any replies or retweets. It makes a lot more [...]...

Other than the fact that this infographic is supposedly written in the future (September 20, 2010), it does provide an interesting insight into the plight of the trapped Chilean miners. Thirty three miners have three holes – their sole key to survival. No sun, fresh air, their whole world are these 3 holes. Some notes: [...]...

Man, I would have killed to hang out with the TMNT, back in the day. Hell even right now. If you stop to think about it, the whole concept of the show is so insanely crazy, it’s hard to see how anyone would have imagined that a show so outrageous would have been such a [...]...

The feathers, because 200 pounds of bricks is just 200 pounds of bricks, but with the feathers, you've also got to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds submitted by ITzzIKEI to Jokes [link] [151 comments]...

Billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said Sunday he tries to pay as little tax as possible, and kept Americans in suspense as to whether he will release his tax returns. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton did so on Friday, making public the returns of her and husband Bill for the past seven years. Over the years the duo have released their tax returns going back to the 1970s....

Dubai-based developer Emaar Properties on Sunday reported a 12 percent rise in net profits for the first six months of 2015 due to high revenues from its shopping malls and hotels. Increased revenues from its retail and hospitality businesses helped bring first half net profits to $600 million (545 million e...

A teenager stabbed at a Gay Pride march died of her injuries Sunday as the attack and a firebombing that killed a Palestinian child put pressure on Israel to crack down on Jewish extremists. Shira Banki, 16, was among six people stabbed at the Jerusalem march on Thursday by a suspect identified as an ultra-Orthodox Jew released from prison only weeks earli...

China star Sun Yang attacked the media over negative coverage of Chinese swimmers after successfully defending his 400m freestyle title with gold in Sunday's final at the world swimming championships. The Olympic champion clocked three minutes 42.58 seconds to leave him nearly three seconds short of the event's world record he is chasing. Sun courted controversy in 2014 after it emerged he had served a ...

Another US trophy hunter is suspected of killing a lion in Zimbabwe without a permit, authorities in Harare said Sunday, days after the killing of Cecil the lion by an American dentist caused global outrage. A government statement said a crackdown on illegal hunting since Cecil's killing had led to the a...

âCalling practically all growing contemporary businesses âtechnology companiesâ is about as useful as calling the enterprises of the industrial era âfactory companies.ââ Everything is tech and nothing is.Read more......

At a conference on Saturday, billionaire conservative puppeteer Charles Koch challenged around 450 fundraisers to advocate for the end of âcorporate cronyism.â Hmm. Whatâs the play here, Charles?Read more......

After racist Truther status updates were found on his Facebook, part-time Donald Trump advisor Sam Nunberg âis no longer affiliatedâ with the leading Republican presidential candidateâs campaign. Nunberg had been rehired after resigning last year , following his coordination of a disastrous Buzzfeed profile.Read more......

Bobby Brownâs sister Leolah was escorted from her niece Bobbi Kristinaâs memorial service on Saturday after lashing out verbally at Pat Houston, former manager and sister-in-law to Bobbi Kristinaâs mother Whitney Houston.Read more......

This may be the only exciting piece of government paperwork youâll ever read. Buzz Aldrin conquered Throwback Thursday forever last week when he shared his travel voucher from the Apollo 11 mission on Facebook and Twitter.Read more......

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones spent Saturday dressed in their Ghostbusters costumes, visiting patients at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. Being nice to sick children is generally part and parcel of that whole âbeing humanâ thing; and making the rounds in superhero costume is a pretty standard celebrity box to check (remember when Chris Evans and Chris Pratt did this and the internet went insane?). Read more......

The Times has a story today about Millennials embracing co-living spacesâbasically just a euphemism for having more roommates than is healthyâfocusing on something called Pure House. (What a name!) One of Pure Houseâs tenants is a man named Russell Jackson, who is 52 years oldânot a Millennial.Read more......

âIn the protests that have followed police shootings, demonstrators have often asked why officers are so rarely punished for shootings that seem unwarranted. Dr. Lewinski is part of the answer.âRead more......

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What is this, a teaser for ants?
We've been getting some behind the scenes sneak peeks of Zoolander 2 while the sequel has been in production, but we finally got an official look at the movie on Sunday.
It's been 14 years since we saw Ben Stiller play Derek Zoolander on the big screen, but now he's [...]...

This is so scary!
Daddy Dave, a personality on the Discovery Channel TV show Street Outlaws, was drag racing in Amarillo, Texas on Saturday night when he lost control of his car, hit the wall, and flipped over multiple times!
The race in the horrifying video starts and ends pretty quickly, but afterwards you can see track [...]...

Ok, this is funny!
Eliza Dushku has been staying in a Pittsburgh hotel for the better part of two months while she's on location working on Banshee. And after a few weeks in a hotel, she'd clearly gotten cozy… until One Direction showed up!
[ Related: What's Up With 1D's Future, Anyways?! ]
The British boy band came [...]...

Wow! Can you believe that Weird Science is 30 years old?? The John Hughes comedy fantasy classic came out on August 2, 1985.
And while the rest of the film — about teens who use their computer to create a super-powered woman — is pretty dated, one thing really stood the test of time: Robert Downey [...]...

It seems like not much has changed for Kevin Hart.
The funnyman has blown up in the last twelve months, thanks to major movies and worldwide attention, but if his new interview in Rolling Stone is any indication, he may still think some of the same things about having a gay son that he stated years [...]...

Forget rounds, or even minutes — this woman wins in seconds!
If you missed it in the world of zportz, Ronda Rousey hung on to her title belt Saturday night at UFC 190 after knocking out challenger Bethe Correia in a whopping 34 seconds!
[ Related: Rousey Talks About Struggling With Bulimia ]
Twitter went crazy over the [...]...

Such a gorgeous couple!
Channing Tatum and wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum were out and about Saturday night in El Lay, making an appearance at the 2015 Celebration of Dance Gala put on by the Dizzy Feet Foundation.
[ Related: Channing Reveals The 'Darker Side' Of His Stripper Days! ]
The 35-year-old actor, who just signed on to do Gambit [...]...

Looks like someone is having an identity crisis!
And no it's not Kendall Jenner! It's her sister's dog Norman!
While the pup thinks he's a dragon, the 19-year-old is pretty content with being one of the hottest names in fashion!
But this wasn't the only thing to blow up on social media!
Lena Dunham went to a business meeting [...]...

When it rains, it pours.
And this is so sad for Bobby Brown, who is now dealing with another sad event after putting to rest his daughter Bobbi Kristina yesterday in Georgia.
[ Related: Brown's Sister Was Booted From Bobbi Kristina's Funeral ]
Sources are reporting that Bobby's wife Alicia Etheredge suffered a seizure Saturday night at [...]...

Bob Barker has no problem if someone does to Dr. Walter Palmer what he did to Cecil The Lion ... kill him. Barker and his partner Nancy Burnet believe Palmer and hunters like him have a personality defect like…
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The video is horrific ... a drag race comes to a quick, violent end when Daddy Dave from "Street Outlaws" loses control of his vehicle and it slams into a wall and barrel rolls. It happened at the Amarillo Dragway in Texas Saturday night.…
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Two POWERHOUSES in the weightlifting community are offering their support to Janae Marie -- the bodybuilding champ who revealed she's transgender ... TMZ Sports has learned. As we previously reported, Janae -- formerly Matt "Kroc"…
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Jericho -- the so-called "brother" of Cecil The Lion -- is doing just fine, despite reports he met the same fate as the beloved fallen beast. Jericho was spotted early Sunday in Zimbabwe. Here's what's really interesting.…
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Add Yoga to the list of things Lebron James does better than everyone else ... that's according to a big time college basketball star who tells TMZ Sports LBJ is the king ... of the downward facing dog. We spoke to…
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PureLeef, the body plumping cream company that got a huge lift from Kylie Jenner, claims she did it all on her own, for free. Kylie, who turns 18 August 10, got tons of backlash for what some say is an inappropriate Instagram photo promoting…
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Pat Houston arrived in solemn fashion to the home where a post-funeral reception was held in memory of Bobbi Kristina, but when the crowd arrived it became a party to celebrate her life. The reception was held at Pat's…
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Chris Brown's baby mama fears for the safety of their daughter when she's alone with him ... so she's asking a judge to ONLY allow him to see 1-year-old Royalty when someone else is around. We're told Nia Guzman just filed the legal docs…
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Rapper Travis Scott got taken down by cops one song into his set at Lollapalooza ﻿in Chicago Saturday, after urging the huge crowd to rush the stage. Scott was super hyped as he took the stage in front of…
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Heidi Klum is still looking pretty hot in spite of having had like 5 million kids and being in her late forties. You wish your girl looked this good now much less in middle age. Here she is sunbathing topless in Sardinia. Check out her Teutonic majesties. (The Superficial) Kendall Schuler’s topless tits will make […]...

Ronda Rousey didn’t want to be too thin when she posed for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue because we all know how that’s frowned upon. Instead she wanted a little more junk in the trunk and claims she gained weight on purpose, a move which no doubt infuriated the editors: “I felt like I was […]...

New York Jets’ defensive end Sheldon Richardson is suspended the first four games of next season for smoking weed. No word on when they’ll start testing owners and coaches or if a bro should be allowed to enjoy a joint when his spinal cord looks like a row of garlic rolls. Richardson held a mini […]...

Morrissey claimsÂ a TSA agent at the San Francisco International Airport grabbed his dick while frisking him, although it’s unclear why he had a boner or specifically requested Chad. He proceeded to write a blog about the ordeal while mascara ran down his face. To be fair he was carrying several fertilizer bombs on his way […]...

We all know Woody Allen is kinda creepy, what with his banging his stepdaughter Soon Yi when she was a teenager. But in an NPR interview he reveals just how much of a sex pest he is. It sounds like classic predator to me. Listen to Woody’s confession. (The Superficial) Courtnie Quinlan’s tits are fucking […]...

Hillary Clinton had a department store on Fifth Avenue closed down so she could get a $600 haircut, or as she calls it, relating to the middle class. Bergdorf Goodman is apparently not a flamboyant composer of dramatic show tunes, but a high end retail store in New York. It’s unclear how Clinton, who doesn’t […]...

On this week’s podcast we were left wondering how awkward it is to go to a Cosby sexual assault victim reunion, how this nation needs to protect its sex workers, and the sadistic passion of dentists. Things more important than will ever be discussed in any Presidential debate. How very sad. I think for us […]...

Donald Trump berated a lawyer who was deposing him because she needed to pump breast milk for her baby, according to the lawyer and to Trump. Elizabeth Beck eventually came down on the losing side in the case, possibly becauseÂ she brought her baby to the office and was tickling it while pretending to listen to […]...

Kelsey and Baylee SolesÂ are 19 year old fraternal twin sister models from South Carolina, or what Tony RobbinsÂ refers to as motivation to become a billionaire so they’ll both get naked in your jet. He’s starting to get weird. The sisters have been signed to a Calvin Klein campaign even though at 19 they’re considered repugnant […]...

Professional White person Gwyneth Paltrow is selling handbags on her shitty Goop website that have the names of famous dead rappers like Biggie and Tupac on them. Gwyneth is why minorities hate White people. What’s next? Fubu? (The Superficial) Summer St. Claire does a striptease. (Egotastic All-Stars) The Incredible Hulk loves Donald Trump. (TMZ) Giselle […]...

Honda has always been more than a car company. In addition to its car and motorcycle business, it also manufacturers marine vehicles, generators, a weird robot and even planes. To keep that spirit of just making as much stuff as possible alive it i......

It's sometimes hard to keep track of positions in an IndyCar race, especially if you're in the stands and don't have the luxury of a broadcaster or data stream to point things out. Never fear, though: as of this weekend, the league's cars are carry......

Already immersing yourself in Windows 10? Trying to block out the not-so-favorable memories of Windows 8? Good for you. This week involved a new smartphone from a new challenger, and several new smartphone from a once-dominant player. And we don't......

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
Tesla's Model S got a lot of press when Elon Musk unveiled a "Ludicrous" upgrade that goes from 0-60 in 2......

Amazon released the Alexa Appkit last month in hopes that developers will create cool new features for the voice technology that powers the Echo. This time, the e-commerce giant is offering the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) itself as a developer previe......

You can already access your Dropbox files on all your PCs and mobile gadgets, but what if you want to put them on your TV? If you have a Roku player, you're set. Roku has launched a Dropbox channel that lets you browse your photos and videos on i......

Folks in Japan might find themselves chatting with Pepper robots in business establishments these coming years. The enterprise version of the gentle-looking humanoid machine will be available for pre-order starting on October 1st, 2015, and busines......

You probably aren't a fan of showing up at the coffee shop right when there's a large line, or at the gym when there are no free machines. Wouldn't it be nice if you could find out how busy a place is at any given moment, without resorting to esti......

Tech startups rarely get a second chance if they fail, since they can't usually draw on the help of either a huge following or a pile of cash. However, the recently defunct Frontback is getting that rare reprieve. The selfie-oriented social servi......

Uber is getting richer and richer. It's now valued at $51 billion after raising another $1 billion in funding, and it got to this stage two years faster than Facebook did. As always, the ride-sharing service has attracted an assortment of investors......

Alexa, the chatty personality that makes the Amazon Echo smart speaker so fun and handy, wants to join more devices. The company announced Friday the launch of its free Alexa Voice Service (AVS) developer preview.AVS was born out of the companyâs work on the Echo, which may be Amazonâs best hardware product since its Kindle e-reader. The device is a voice-controlled cylindrical appliance that can tell you the weather, give you traffic conditions on your commute, play music, control connected lights and other appliances, andâof courseâbuy things from Amazon. See also: Amazon Echoâs Ready To Chat Up Everyone NowâExcept Developers...

Looks like Microsoft's Windows 10 debut is a hit: The new version of the operating system, which launched Wednesday, now powers more than 14 million devices, the company says.But not everyone is thrilled with the new software. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard called out Windows 10 for foisting the companyâs own media-playback apps and Edge Web browser. See also: What Mozilla's WebAssembly Means: More Powerful Web AppsThe latter is obviously a sore spot for the Firefox maker, but the whole scenar...

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Bitcoin, the digital currency infamous for wild swings in value and black market transactions, could have profound implications for the future of public services. Tech optimists at the highest levels of government are exploring how the same technology that makes bitcoin anonymous could make government services less bureaucratic and more secure from hackers. I spoke with Brian Forde, MIT Media Labs' new director of digital currency and former senior advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at the Atlantic Aspen Ideas Festival to discuss bitcoin technology and how it could eventually ...

Guest author Robert J. Moore is the CEO of RJMetrics, a provider of business intelligence to online companies.Much of the growth in software-as-a-service companies is being driven by a âland and expandâ strategy: Tools first get used by individuals, then by small teams, and so on up the organizational hierarchy. Eventually the company finds itself signing a large-scale deal, all without a competitive process or RFP. Companies like Slack and Dropbox craft their pricing models specifically to encourage this behaviorâSlack knew exactly what it was doing when it decided to allow accounts to grow to unlimited users for free, and it was certainly an effective strategy to penetrate my company, RJMetrics. One day, some engineers were using it, then all the engineers, then the rest of the company, then we reached a point of no return and paying for it was pretty much our only option....

Google knows a friction-free app testing and submission process can help developers keep decent apps flowing, so it just rolled out a series of improvements to the beta testing process for Google Play apps. Overall, the changes are designed to help developers manage pre-release beta tests easily, so they can "iterate faster" to develop or improve features. See also: Google's Offering Smarter Tools For Smarter Apps And HomesConsider it part of Google's recent developer outreach, which also gives app makers more finetuned ways to promote their apps once the testing is over. Test AwayIn the past, beta tests were closed and ran through a Google+ community or Google ...

Pinterest, the fast-growing, highly valued Visual Web startup, is far ahead of the Silicon Valley pack when it comes to gender diversity. But it's vowing to do far better on both gender and racial diversity, cofounder Evan Sharp promised in a blog post on Thursday.Startlingly, despite Pinterest's efforts to improve its numbers, its industry-leading ratio of women tech employees stayed steady at 21 percent from 2014 to 2015.See also: Why Pinterest's Workforce Is The Future Of TechThat's nearly twice the ratios other large tech companies h...

How do we make personal and commercial drones safe? Some of the biggest names in technology put their heads together at a NASA convention in California to address that issue, and Amazon is the first to step up with a detailed proposal. Its idea: build a drone highway in the air. Action of some sort is most definitely needed. Drones flown by the public have been getting too close to airports, interfering with firefighting operations, and even crashing into national landmarks. See also: Facebook's First Drone Is Broader Than A 737Amazon's plan involves two different...

Hi! Itâs time for me to speak up and introduce myself. Iâm the CEO of Wearable World, the company that bought ReadWrite back in February. To the many who have loved this site for more than 12 years, Iâd like to say âThank you.â Thank you for sticking around and believing in ReadWrite. Like you, Iâve been a reader. Iâve also been a sponsor of ReadWrite. Iâm now its owner, and after this post goes live âŚ Iâll be a writer, too.Having participated in all aspects of this business, Iâm humbled to have the opportunity to contribute to a publication that matters to the 5 million of you in ReadWriteâs larger community. (Thatâs my best estimate of the extended audience reached by ReadWriteâs website, social presences, and distribution partners. There are a lot of you!)As Owen Thomas, ReadWriteâs editor-in-c...

Adam Jacob is a cofounder and CTO of Chef, an IT-automation company that helps enterprises use DevOps to build and deliver quality software quickly.I have had the privilege of being either physically present or near many of the seminal moments in the evolution of DevOps. My friend and cofounder at Chef, Jesse Robbins, was the conference chair for the operations track at O'Reilly's Velocity conference. It was there in 2009 that John Allspaw and Paul Hammond gave their seminal talk, "10 Deploys Per Day, Dev And Ops Cooperation At Flickr." In it they outlined all the ways they worked together to deliver code quickly and safely.John and Paulâs talk is all the more relevant today. The largest companies in the world are working as hard as they can to figure out how to become better at bu...

Amazon has opened up a new streamlined sales channel for startups called LaunchPad. If you've got something to sellâa recently Kickstarted invention, sayâthen LaunchPad lets you put it in front of millions of Amazon customers and distribute it through the e-commerce giant's massive pipeline. Your new product can even get Amazon Prime eligibility too. Sounds like a win-win situation. Amazon gets intriguing new products to sell that aren't widely available elsewhere, while inventors and startups benefit from retail expertise and access to infrastructure they might not otherwise have. That is, if they get accepted. Participants don't just sign up and start selling. There's an application process, one with somewhat vague rules and a couple of stipulations that new product makers should be aware of. Ready To Launch?...

An anonymous reader writes: A new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center is letting the public see wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia shuttles after keeping it from view for decades. Two pieces of debris from each lost shuttle and personal reminders of the astronauts killed in the flights will be on display. The AP reports: " NASA's intent is to show how the astronauts lived, rather than how they died. As such, there are no pictures in the 'Forever Remembered' exhibit of Challenger breaking apart in the Florida sky nearly 30 years ago or Columbia debris raining down on Texas 12 years ago. Since the tragic re-entry, Columbia's scorched remains have been stashed in off-limits offices at the space center. But NASA had to pry open the underground tomb housing Challenger's pieces — a pair of abandoned missile silos at neighboring Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — to retrieve the section of fuselage now on display."
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New submitter keithlynpitts writes: Uber is looking to expand it's services in India, and will invest $1 billion there in the next nine months. India is the second biggest market for Uber after the U.S.. The company hopes their investment will help speed growth in the country, which is already at a staggering 40% every month. "We expect to hit over 1 million trips per day," said Amit Jain, president at Uber India.
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jones_supa writes: Lennart Poettering, the creator of the controversial init system and service manager for Linux-based operating systems has announced the first systemd conference. The systemd.conf will take place November 5-7, in Berlin, Germany. systemd developers and hackers, DevOps professionals, and Linux distribution packagers will be able to attend various workshops, as well as to collaborate with their fellow developers and plan the future of the project. Attendees will also be able to participate in an extended hackfest event, as well as numerous presentations held by important names in the systemd project, including Poettering himself.
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Sepa Blackforesta writes: A plan for an epic bridge connecting Russia's easternmost border with Alaska's westernmost border could soon be a reality, as Russia seeks to partner with China. Sijutech reports: "If this mega bridge come to reality, it would be Planet Earth’s most epic mega-road trip ever. The plans have not been officially accepted since specific details of the highway still need to be discussed, including the large budget. Allegedly the plan will cost upwards in the trillions of dollars range."
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An anonymous reader writes: A hitchhiking robot that successfully traveled across Canada in 26 days last year and parts of Europe, has met its demise in Philly. Created as a "social experiment," hitchBOT started its journey in the U.S. in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on July 17 with its thumb raised up and tape wrapped around its head that read "San Francisco or bust." After about two weeks in the U.S., someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair. "Sadly, sadly it's come to an end," said Frauke Zeller, one of its co-creators. The Independent reports: "The robot was designed to be a talking travel companion and could toss out factoids and carry limited conversation. A GPS in the robot tracked its location, and a camera randomly snapped photos about every 20 minutes to document its travels."
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AmiMoJo writes: The pilot of the drone shot down Sunday evening over a Kentucky property has now come forward with video seemingly showing that the drone wasn't nearly as close as the property owner made it out to be. The data also shows that it was well over 200 feet above the ground before the fatal shots fired. The shooter, meanwhile, continues to maintain that the drone flew 20 feet over a neighbour's house before ascending to "60 to 80 [feet] above me."
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Reuters reports that four people have died of Legionnaire's Disease in an outbreak in the Bronx, and 65 more have exhibited symptoms of the disease. The Bronx was also home to the most recent flare-up of the disease, in December of last year. Says the article,
In response to the outbreak, the city's health department has inspected 22 buildings in the Bronx, 17 of which have cooling towers. Five buildings, including the historic Opera House Hotel, Lincoln Medical Center and the Concourse Plaza mall and movie complex, tested positive for Legionella. Disinfection efforts are ongoing or have already been completed at all five sites. ... The people who died from the disease were older adults with underlying medical problems, according to a city press release. The department said the city's drinking water supply, fountains and pools have not been affected.
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sciencehabit writes: A simple supplement to a cow's feed could substantially decrease a major source of methane, a planet-warming greenhouse gas, a new study suggests. Each year worldwide, the methane produced by cud-chewing livestock warms Earth's climate by the same amount as 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide, a little more than 4% of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity. That makes cows tempting targets for methane reduction efforts. In a new study, researchers added the chemical 3-nitrooxypropanol, also known as 3NOP, to the corn-and-alfalfa-based feed of 84 milk-producing Holsteins and monitored their methane production for 12 weeks—the largest and longest such trial of its type in lactating cows, the scientists say. For cows whose feed included 3NOP, methane emissions dropped, on average, by 30%.
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Hallie Siegel writes: A team of researchers from ETH Zurich have just set a new endurance record for solar powered flight of an unmanned autonomous aircraft, achieving over four days of solar-powered flight in a range of weather conditions. Being able to demonstrate more than 24 hours of endurance is important because overcast skies can inhibit recharging and poor weather or high winds can effect power consumption. Nice achievement for this class of aircraft.
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New submitter Manish Singh writes: Why is Samsung, the South Korean technology conglomerate which has the tentpole position in Android, becoming increasinglu focused on its homegrown operating system Tizen? At its annual developer summit this week, the company announced new SDKs for smartwatches, smart TVs, and smartphones, and also shared its future roadmap.
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Manhattan, 2040: Alice wants to open an antiques store. Chelsea seems like a good location. She has to find 150 square meters to move the items that she has collected over the years, and to go on a tour of flea markets in Eastern Europe, her area of expertise. She needs to finance the imports. The problem? She doesn’t have enough money to get started. Read More
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It’s still early days in the bacteria becomes our food production process. However, several Silicon Valley scientists are creating lab-grown edibles of the truly bizarre or mixing up animal substitutes based on some interesting ingredients. Here are 10 of them. Read More
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“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in the city, was created with a predictive algorithm that focused on factors including, per the Chicago Tribune, “his or her acquaintances and their… Read More
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Startups start with talent, and the talent, as we all know, seems to get younger every year. But it wouldn’t happen if children themselves were not introduced to the word of technology and engineering early, and shown that it can be a fun, creative environment. For the last 6 years, a pioneer of this in the UK has been Young Rewired State, a non-profit founded by Emma Mulqueeny, which… Read More
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TechCrunch interviews Eileen Burbidge, Partner at London VC firm Passion Capital, where we discuss her early days working at Skype and Apple, the types of startups she invests in, her close ties to the U.K. government, the upcoming EU in-out referendum, and women in technology. Read More
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“The minute a major Silicon Valley VC sets up a branch in Mexico, you will be out of business,” a Mexican founder told me over dinner at last year’s Mexico VC Day in San Francisco. I did not respond, because I actually think our risk of going out of business is higher if they don’t come. And we don’t expect them to come in the near future. Read More
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From something as simple as a door sensor at a store to the new age of “smart” sensors in a rapidly emerging wearables market, the application of sensors has already permeated many parts of our everyday lives. But the future of dynamic sensor applications goes beyond just measuring your heart rate through the new Apple Watch. Read More
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It’s no secret that the growth of publicly available data, or open data, is more prevalent than ever. From government databases, such as those aggregated by Data.gov, to data made available via tools such as Google Places API — the public has access to an overwhelming amount of information. Read More
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Each weekend, WIRED rounds up the security vulnerabilities and privacy updates that deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: United Airlines Can’t Catch a Break appeared first on WIRED....

Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst. The post New Laws Explain Why Fast-Growing Networks Break appeared first on WIRED....

It's a new week and the North American PlayStation Store's Weekly Deals has been refreshed. It features a publisher sale on Square Enix and 2K games. This is a great opportunity to grab titles like Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, Drakengard 3, Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, and more for cheap!
Here's a roundup of the some titles on sale:...

The new round of P&G BrandSaver coupons are now available! Here's your opportunity to save on popular P&G brands, such as Pantene, Covergirl, Pampers and more. Keep in mind that you can print just 30 coupons a month and each coupon can be printed only once. Check out some of the coupons available this round:
$2 off any 2 Olay Complete, Classic or Cleanser
$1 off any 2 Bounty 6 rol...

Origin.com has a new game available for free through their On The House promotion!
For a limited time only, you can download the popular strategy game, Theme Hospital, for free! This game was originally released back in 1997 and would normally cost $4.99. Anyone who is a fan of simulator games will enjoy this one as you'll get to design, build, and manage a hospital. Users on ...

New mobile games are available through the tenth Humble Mobile Bundle! There will be more games to come, but in the meantime, you can pay what you want for these six games:
Pay what you want for these games:
Buddy & Me
Lyne
Doodle Kingdom
Beat the average to unlock:
Sorcery! 2
King of Dragon pass
OTTTD
The charities you'll be supporting this week are Extra Life/Children's Miracle Netw...

If you're looking to stock up on some rechargeable batteries, the ever popular Panasonic Eneloops are back on sale at Dell.ca for a limited time as part of their Red Hot Deals. Right now, you can pick up the ...

Here are this week's deals for Wacky Wednesday at IKEA. Remember, the prices are low but the deals are good on Wednesday only -- and quantities may be limited!
At IKEA North York, the Ulsberg Nightstand is $19.99 (down from $44.99)
At IKEA Calgary, the Ideell Plate is $0.10 (down from $4) and the Fantastisk Paper Napkins are $0.10 for a 50-pack (down from $3.99)
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For a limited time, the Microsoft Store is selling the Unlocked Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Smartphone, Yellow for only $349.00 (Reg. $549.00)! Thatâs a terrific deal if youâre tired of being locked down in a contract and do not want an iOS or Android phone from the usual suspects. ...

During the season of crowded beaches on Cape Cod, photographer David L. Ryan provides a visual respite of the shoreline during an assignment in a fixed-wing Cessna. Although familiar with shooting from the air, he often flies in helicopters that can fly lower to the ground and provide more stability and control for the photographer. On this summer afternoon, he captured a unique and stunning look from above of where land and sea meet off the town of Chatham. Seals congregate on a sandbar off the coast of Chatham. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

Hereâs a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month including the Fourth of July celebration, the summer heat wave, the NASCAR Sprint Cup in Loudon, N.H., and the start of the Patriotsâ training camp. -- By Lloyd YoungChildren played in the fountain near the Christian Science Center in Boston. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

This week, Los Angeles is hosting the 2015 Special Olympics World Games. About 6,500 athletes with intellectual disabilities from 165 nations are competing throughout the city in the largest event LA has hosted since the 1984 Olympics. âThese games will change the lives of people around the world who are mistreated and excluded because theyâre âdifferent,ââ said Patrick McClenahan, president and CEO of LA2015. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelFireworks explode over the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 2015 Special Olympics World Games Opening Ceremony, July 25. (ROBYN BECK//AFP/Getty Images)

US President Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, his step-grandmother. The Kenyan village, burial place of Obamaâs father, features an open-pit goldmine, a pork butcher, and school named after their most famous son. -- By ReutersA boy plays during breaktime at the Senator Obama primary school in the village of Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital of Nairobi on July 16. US President Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia this month. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

The United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations today, beginning a new post-Cold War era. Earlier this summer, photographer Suzanne Kreiter traveled back to Cuba, 21 years after her first visit there for The Boston Globe. This rare moment of transition, as diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States resume, provides an opportunity to see old and new Cuba, past and future, through the same lens. Get the full multimedia experience and see what Cuba was like 21 years ago . Restored cars, many with Japanese engines, line up in front of the old Capitol building waiting for tourists. (SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF)

Here is a look at the fans who are catching a glimpse of the Tour de France as it moves though many different locations in Europe. The annual multiple-stage bicycle race started in Utrecht, Netherlands, on July 4 and ends in Paris on July 26. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelMTN Qhubeka team rider Daniel Teklehaimanot (L) of Eritrea, Cofidis team rider Kenneth Vanbilsen (C) of Belgium and Team Europcar rider Perrig Quemeneur (R) of France in action on their breakaway attempt during the 6th stage of the 102nd edition of the Tour de France 2015 cycling race between Abbeville and Le Havre, France, July 9. (YOAN VALAT/EPA)

Photographers often look up to capture an amazing aspect of our world. The sky can be a compelling subject or backdrop in a photograph, emanating many sources of light. Here is a collection of images depicting upward phenomena around the globe. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelThis long-exposure photograph taken on April 28 shows the Milky Way in the clear night sky at Ngwe Saung beach, west of Pathein in Myanmar's Irrawaddy region. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)

With an impressive 108.6 inches of snow, Boston made history with its snowiest winter on record. Here is a look at how photographers captured the striking ways that this massive amount of snow changed the landscape in the region for months. Piles of snow along the streets of Squantum frame the city of Boston across Dorchester Bay. ( Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff)

The US womenâs soccer team was honored on the streets of New York City today with a ticker-tape parade. The team is the winner of the Womenâs World Cup after they defeated Japan in the final on Sunday. This is the first time the city held such a parade for a womenâs team. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelFans of the US women's soccer team cheer during the ticker-tape parade to celebrate their World Cup final win over Japan on Sunday, in New York, July 10. The World Cup winning U.S. women's football team rolled up New York City's "Canyon of Heroes" on Friday, with a blizzard of confetti swirling overhead in the first ticker-tape parade honouring a women's sports team. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

Once again the San Fermin festival is underway in Pamplona, Spain. Dating from the 16th century and known worldwide for the harrowing running of the bulls over the cityâs cobbled streets and criticized for its bullfights, the nine-day festival kicked off in a packed city square Monday with people dousing one another with wine and water. It concludes at midnight on July 14 with singing by candlelight. A flaming fake bull known as a "Toro de fuego" runs after revelers during the 2015 San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, on July 6. Revelers from around the world turned out to kick off the festival with a messy party in the Pamplona town square, one day before the first of eight days of the running of the bulls. (Andres Kudacki/Associated Press)

Thank you thank you thank you thank you. Thank you for stickin with me for however long you have stuck here. Gunshow was fun to do but I gotta do something else. I just have to. Thank you. Some important links for you: my main site, will soon be a easy way to check on what im doing. BACK is my other comic I am still doing with Anthony. We're just getting started with it. Pinocchio, a comic adaptation. While not...

It's christmas... What are you doing here? I guess readin' this final bit of the story huh? Thanks for taking time away from your family to look at this dumb comic. If you don't celebrate/care about Christmas, enjoy your day off and thanks for checking it anyway. You didn't have to, but you did! One more. I'll see you....

beep beep im on a road trip as of this writing! The final gunshows have been uploaded so don't worry! Enjoy the new year and follow me on twitter... unLESS I BLOCKED YOUPATREON! + BACK! PINOCCHIO! + STORE!...

Just a heads up: I took down the gunshow facebook page and will delete the gunshow twitter since I got no use for em anymore once Gunshow ceases to update at the end of the year. I feel like not a lot of people are realizing this is for true or just don't read this blog down here. OH WELL...

This is it... These are the final moments!! We go out with a story to sort of end off the office friends. This will last mostly all month up to the end. Just stick with us til then.PATREON! + BACK! PINOCCHIO! + STORE!...

Gabe: Dabe has delivered a new shirt design that I find hits a bit too close to home. I remember very vividly when I broke my Pokemon card game addiction. I was free and clear until my son Gabe got hooked. Now I’m right back in! -Gabe out...

Gabe: I have three pieces of PAX related news to share with you. 1. If you are attending PAX Dev and you would like to know when all the cool stuff that is happening there is happening then check out this schedule. 2. The Dates for PAX South are January 29, 30, 31. 3. We are “planning” on launching ticket sales for PAX South on September 16th 2015. 4. I hate when I’m trying to get to the World’s Grave but I get turned around at the Circle of Bones and I end up in the Skull Orchard. One of those places is not actually in Destiny. -Gabe Out...

Gabe: Nightlight is wrapped up now and for those who have no idea whatâs going on, I posted a breakdown in the forum. When my Dad and I were at the Childâs Play golf tournament he saw me have a conversation with Kiko and Dabe about Nightlight. It was before I left for my vacation and I was really struggling to figure out what the monsters in this world would be like. The three of us were bouncing around ideas and my Dad just sat there and listened. We talked about the particular childâs fears informing each monster design. Dabe had the idea of getting real kids to draw monsters and then…...

Tycho: Grace, Part Six can be found here. I knew David Edery when he worked at Microsoft, what seems like a thousand years ago, under circumstances you will absorb here in a moment. I think he was more or less driven insane by it. Now he works at Spry Fox with an incredibly small crew, making all kinds of weird shit and getting incredibly bad business advice from ME. I think he does what I do for Mike, which is to say, his primary goal over there is to help other people do what they do best, and it would be hard to put an exact label on it. Hey, thank you for authorizing On The…...

Gabe: For some reason I have a bunch of writer friends. In fact now that I think about it, I probably know more writers than I do visual artists. I like writers because they always get very excited when they see drawings based on their stories. Taking the ideas they have in their heads and turning them into pictures is like a magic trick to many writers. Maybe that’s why I like them so much. When I hang out with writers I’m the best artist in the room! Gary Whitta is one of these writer friends and a few months ago he came to me with an idea. He wanted to make a book for geek parents…...

Gabe: If you live in Australia then it is already tomorrow but that’s just your today so don’t freak out. That means you’re “Tomorrow” (Friday, July 31) is the last day to snag badges at the Early Bird Rate. So you should do that! Also we’ve announced the PAX Australian Indie Showcase winners. You can check them all out over on the official page. -Gabe out...

Tycho: Grace, Part Five can be found here.Erik Wolpaw, from Old Man Murray to Portal and Portal 2, you must certainly be considered the world’s foremost writer of gaming humor - both inside and outside games themselves. And your last name is just pronounced regular old Wolpaw, which is way easier to pronounce than Chmielarz. It’s a much more considerate name. But, back to the other thing: why is the best in the Goddamn business writing Team Fortress comics exclusively, and only those, forever? Jesus, Jerry, you’re making it sound like I don’t do anything at…...

Gabe: Our Automata Kickstarter is just about funded and we have just posted a new update over on the site. We’ve added another pin design as an optional ADD-ON. Here’s the design: This is going to a be a really slick pin. We’re gonna do it in two layers so that Carl’s mask sits on top of his face. Similar to the 15 year anniversary pin. Thanks so much for your support of this Kickstarter. We’ve just got a little bit more to go! -Gabe out...

Top-ranked Inbee Park won the Women's British Open after coming from three shots behind fellow South Korean Jin-Young Ko in the final round Sunday, becoming the seventh female player to win four different majors. Park picked up seven shots in her last 12 holes for a 7-under 65 to reel in Ko, who lost the lead a...

The Tampa Bay Rays have decided the minors would be the best place for left-hander Matt Moore to continue his return from Tommy John surgery. Moore will go to Triple-A Durham and pitch on a regular schedule, Rays manager Kevin Cash said Sunday. Once a promising starter for the Rays, the 26-year-old Moore has str...

After a big win over the Blue Jays, it was slow jam time in the Kansas City Royals clubhouse. Maybe they were dedicating it to new teammate Ben Zobrist. Zobrist hit solo home runs from both sides of the plate, Eric Hosmer singled home the go-ahead run i...

Troy Merritt couldn't miss Saturday in the Quicken Loans National. Tiger Woods couldn't make anything. It held up, too, as several players made runs at joining him at 14 under, but only Kevin Chappell, another veteran seeking a breakthrough victory, didn't fade in the searing heat at Robert Trent Jones G...

Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout made history at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. It was the first time that a reigning MVP from the National League faced a reigning MVP from the American League. Trout was 0 for 3 against Kershaw, who extended his scoreless streak to 37 innings with eight innings of two-...

Right on the heels of signing quarterback Russell Wilson to a contract extension, the Seattle Seahawks have locked up All-Pro middle linebacker Bobby Wagner. The Seahawks and Wagner finalized a four-year contract extension on Saturday night, making sure Seattle keeps Wagner beyond the 2015 season when his rookie contract was set to expire. NFL.com reported th...

Cole Hamels understood not getting to finish the eighth inning of his debut with the Texas Rangers. Hamels, who threw a no-hitter in his final start for Philadelphia, walked off the mound with a three-run lead over the San Francisco Giants after giving up a two-...

When the Washington Nationals took the bat out of Yoenis Cespedes' hands in the eighth inning, Lucas Duda let the rest of the National League know how tough it's going to be now to get through the middle of the new Mets' lineup. Duda hit a tiebreaking double after Cespedes was walked ...

The International 5, Dota 2's largest tournament of all time, kicks off this Monday with two matches. With a prize pool of $17.8 million dollars on the line, TI5 will no doubt offer the highest level of eSports entertainment.
The six-day tournament is taking place in Seattle. Many teams were invited, but up until this week it had not been decided which teams would take up the wild card slots and have their shot at the $6 million dollar first prize.
The first two matches will be broadcast on August 3, with LGD vs Empire at 8:00 p.m. CST, and CDEC vs C9 at 11:00 p.m. CST. The tournament has 16 teams facing off spread between an upper and lower bracket, with placements determined by group stage play.
The event will conclude on August 8, with the winners of the upper bracket and the lower bracket facing off. We will be bringing updates as these matches play out.
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Dick jokes are not a part of my mind's default settings, but I can't help but notice a clear allusion to a male member when I see one. Teased in a trailer for an upcoming Pokémon movie this new armless, legless, bulbous headed monster has been spotted atop the accent in the word "Pokémon", fearless and fully erect -- a literal expression of the "Pocket Monster" moniker.
Like Munchlax, Victini, and many other "movie debut" characters, this new member of the Pokémon family will probably appear in film long before he pokes his way into a game, but seeing as how Nintendo has supported Splatoon and other recent titles with free content updates, it's possible that we'll see this funny little penis euphemism show up in Pokémon X/Y sometime down the line.
I wonder if drawing him on Miiverse results in an auto-ban?
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Why is it that the people put in charge of teaching the chilluns all the beauty they possess inside end up marrying Bobby Brown, or making batshit crazy stuff like this website about dabbing? I laughed so hard that I haven't been able to go sleep. Little Timmy isn't doing his homework or playing Xbox, he's getting faded on some Major Nelson!
I guess dabbing is some drug thing, I don't know. I'm from Florida. I've seen things, man.
The photo caught my eye while I was browsing some stoner's profile on LUMP. It's our new site that turns any search into a gallery by pulling photos from around the web (there's some NSFW, be cautious). Just in case they change it I've attached a screenshot of the web page. Maybe ...

Today at a Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert in Pittsburgh, composer Arnie Roth stated that "there is a Final Fantasy XII remake underway," adding that it would be coming out "soon."
Maybe he meant HD remaster. That sounds more likely than a full remake à la Final Fantasy VII.
Square Enix hasn't made any official announcement regarding this, mind you. But the publisher just put out enhanced versions of Final Fantasy X and X-2 for PlayStation systems, so another remaster seems plausible. Actually, it would be more surprising if it didn't happen sooner or later.
Also, for what it's worth, Roth made a special note to point out that Final Fantasy XII&nbsp...

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 is in development, Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi announced today at the Dead or Alive festival.
The Dead or Alive Xtreme series is best known as the volleyball game all about unlocking the skimpy outfits for polygonal babes and then ogling them as their boobs bounce unrealistically while they jump around in the sand, because you're a very sad and lonely person.
But don't pitch a tent in anticipation just yet unless you live in Asia, as the game is getting released there exclusively, according to Dead or Alive's official Facebook page. Perhaps we are getting a surprise male only version outside of Asian, allowing us to stare at Zack's thick, long, and curved antenna on his shiny costumes while he fondles some balls. Yay!
Now excuse me while I go back to playe...

[In the heat of the moment, we decided to bring Pixie's blog on MGS up front. Hope you enjoy it. While I'm at it, check out Band of Bloggers, under new management, starting with Hideo Kojima games! ~Strider]
[Heads up: I'm spoiling most of the MGS series here. No main series entry is safe.]
Solid Snake is said to be the protagonist of the Metal Gear Solid series. It's a notion I've come to question over the years. I first met Snake on the NES with Metal Gear and later on was reintroduced to him on Playstation with Metal Gear Solid. As a kid, Metal Gear captued my imagination for it being so different from other games, as it was a game where hiding and avoiding detection were more essential to success than gunning down every enemy you saw. Even on the NES and MSX, Snake had his trusty card...

Chances are you're unfamiliar with Astro Port, which is equal parts understandable and unfortunate.
Japanese independent studios don't get lavished with attention (something we're trying to change), and Astro Port's wares aren't exactly the flashiest games around. However, despite their spartan appearances, Gigantic Army and Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser both impressed me quite a bit.
Astro Port seems to have a knack for delivering nostalgia-drenched shoot-'em-ups, a trend that looks to continue with its latest effort to release in the West, Steel Strider.
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The bodies are still being pulled from the flaming wreckage of an 8-car accident after Tennessee teens tried to recreate the hit video game Rocket League.
Organized by 16-year-old Bryan Song of Big Sandy, the game took place in an empty lot outside of town that is usually used for backyard wrasslin’, muddin’ and other activities poor white people do when they live in a state as boring as Tennessee. According to witnesses, the match lasted for just a few seconds before all eight cars smashed into one another, sending car parts and bodies flying.
“It was awesome, and sad, but mostly awesome,” Song said. “I think there were a lot of things we should have done differently, you know, to prevent all the dying. We should have tried to find a ball as big as the cars instead of using a soccer ball nobody could see. We should have made them wear ...

GunHo Online is putting some of that Puzzle & Dragons money to good use by remastering one of the best RPGs from the Dreamcast era, Grandia II. An enhanced version of the old classic is on its way to PC later this year, complete with a Japanese voice track and harder difficulty setting.
The visuals, of course, have also been cleaned up since the title debuted 15 years ago -- which you can see for yourself in the gallery below with these new screenshots of the upcoming PC release.
By modern standards, it doesn't look great, but I imagine it's pretty difficulty to gussy up a Dreamcast game without a huge overhaul. But it seems a tad prettier than a straight port, at least.
Grandia II HD Edition comin...

Hey guys, things are obviously getting a little tense here the past couple of days. As someone who's only lurked in the forums every once in a while, I'm only aware of bits and pieces of what's going on right now with everybody. People on both sides of this whole situation have not been as communicative with eachother as they should be and there's all sorts of talk about people leaving and cerain aspects of the site being changed to try and reel in more readers. Again, I don't know the whole situation but as it stands right now it sucks for everybody involved, even those of us on the outside looking in.
I've been dealing with some pretty heavy stuff outside of the website so to come back to the website and see all this drama going on honestly hurts. This website is one of the things that helps keep my mind off some of the more painful stuff going on in my life and has helped me vent out some of my feelings and frustrations when I've needed to the most. Everyone here has...

You can e-mail us tips at tips@kotaku.com or send them directly to any of our writers . You can follow us on Twitter or Facebook. We have a YouTube page, too. For a list of all Kotaku subsites, click the dropdown menu on the top left of the page.Read more......

Here are the best of todayâs deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.Read more......

Super Mario World was great for a lot of reasons, but I think it might have been the music of composer Koji Kondo that sticks out in my mind more than anything else. Itâs even better when played on real instruments, and the talented musicians from YouTube channel moonbowmusicmovie very much do it justice with this medley.Read more......

Bethesda might have sold out of Pip Boy editions of Fallout 4, never to make any again, but thanks to one enterprising fan, itâs still possible to get one of your own. You just need a 3D printer.Read more......

With the new installation of the hyped Windows 10, some people might come across a few compatibility issues with their games. Riots League of Legends often has bug splat errors and can crash the game, but with the new Windows 10 installment, players are getting a black screen and are unable to launch the game properly....

The video-games industry has been around for a very long time and throughout the years many titles have been released. Just like everything else, there has to have been a badly, inappropriately named titles. Around the globe you come across badly named products, names and places and video-games are not exempt from this. Obviously, this is not a list to comment on the actual gameplay or quality of the game but just to highlight that maybe the game could have had a better thought out title. Also, these titles are in no particular order, just 10 that stood out for comedic reasons.
Lets take a look at a few titles that made me question the developers thinking....

As gamers, we are always waiting for the the next big reveal. Whether it is the next IP, the next game, or the next generation console. Three years ago, we all knew the next generation consoles (PS4/XBOX ONE) were coming, but we had no details. Then within two months of each other, we got our first details, and we our mouths starting to salivate. We were so excited! We wanted more! We needed more! Then at E3 we got more. Some good (PS4) and some bad (XBOX ONE)....

A while ago, Hideo Kojima introduced an exceptionally bloody Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Poster, and today he explained its meaning on Twitter, also spelling out the themes evolved through the series....

It was the second day of a two-day hackathon collaboration with Nintendo, where employees had the opportunity to create levels with the upcoming game Super Mario Maker. And the ultimate prize? The winning level design would be available to download when the game launches....

Certain jobs are just more hazardous than others. If part of your job description though includes feeding a wall full of snakes then you my friend, deserve the job title of "Expert Badass." I'm not sure where this

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Falling asleep in the car with a group of friends can be a dangerous thing. Sure, you might get a little shuteye, but if you're also setting yourself up for any number of pranks.Â

In his continuing efforts to charm the world into thinking he's not entirely nuts, Tom Cruise took to the Tonight Show to challenge Jimmy Fallon to one of his famous Lip Sync Battles. Their showdown quickly turns into a 10-minute emotiona...

I'm not sure how much help a dick description would be for police searching for a criminal, but it does make for great internet. Distractify rounded up a bunch ...

Since the dawn of man, summer has meant one thing and one thing only to young white guys with pool access: trick shot videos. Sure, the end product looks impressive and fun, but what do all the failures look like?Â

You only have about 5 weeks or so of summer left before it's time to return to the dreaded educational prison of school. Sorry for that downer. On the plus side, you can still make the most of your downtime and go into full chillaxation mode like ...

This tutorial introduces some of the JPA-based features in MyEclipse. In this tutorial, you will learn how to: 1. Set up a project for JPA Persistence. 2. Connect to a database. 3. Reverse Engineer a database table to generate entities. 4. Implement create, retrieve, edit, and delete functions with the generated entities....

While utilization of storage capacity remains one of the most difficult tasks due to its cost and compliance implications for the hospital, we also need to think about how our users are actually going to access the capacity itself when requiring patient information and follow-ups. It all boils down to IOPs â where, when and how is my PACs workload requesting, writing, and reading image data from my repositories. Couple this with dynamic requirements to share data across locations and departments and we have a big latency problem on our hands....

Surprisingly using wait() and notify() method in Java is not that easy, even experienced developers gets confused when ask to write code to solve producer consumer problem by hand using these methods. In this article, we will try to fill those gaps and learn how to use wait and notify method properly in Java....

Elegant and great fonts are like keystone for any design project. So today at TGZ we are sharing Blackletter fonts for your upcoming project. Blackletter is a script with European origin and also referred as Gothic , Fraktur or old English....

The Big Data delivered by interpersonal organizations, sensors, supply chains and each conceivable gadget are making new employments. Gartner assessed for this present week that enormous information will make 1.9 million new occupations in the U.S. through 2015....

I'm in the process of writing a *.d.ts file for express-handlebars.
One of the functions takes a config object that looks like this:
{
extname: '.handlebars',
compiled: { '/path/to/template': function () { ... }),
precompiled: { '/path/to/template': 'precompiled template string' }
}
The piece that is bothering me is the object literals on both compiled and precompiled properties.
Is it possible to type those object literals in TypeScript so that the compiled object literal only accepts values of type Function, and precompiled only would accept values of type String?...

I have a problem. I get Undefined offset when I need the draw table. problem is in connecting to the sql database i don't know what to write. Would someone able to help and explain the problem.
error is this:
Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 145
Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 152
Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 156
Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 145
Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 152
Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 156
Notice: Undefined offset: 4 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 145
Notice: Undefined offset: 4 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 152
Notice: Undefined offset: 4 in C:\xampp\htdocs\bracket\bracket.php on line 156
...

I try to make a program in java that's decrypting a text.
Example:
Input: ABKBFA
Output: ABBA
Rules:
Keep first letter and the last letter
jump over some letters dependence of alphabet (A-Z), The Alphabet has values A=1 B=2 C=3... So if the word is "HZBKRYAFEAAAAJ" it will first keep the letter H and because H=8 it will jump 8 steps and land on E. When it lands on E the word is HE but it is not finish . E=5 so 5 steps to jump and it lands on J and the word will be "HEJ".
I have not come so far of how to solve this problem. Right now it only saves the last and the fitst
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
String text = sc.nextLine();
char[] alphabet = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'};
char firstLetter = ...

I'm trying to figure out why the following code:
{
unsigned int a = 10;
a = ~a;
printf("%d\n", a);
}
a will be 00001010 to begin with, and after NOT opertaion, will transform
into 11110101.
What happens exactly when one tries to print a as signed integer, that makes
the printed result to be -11?
I thought i would end up seeing -5 maybe (according to the binary representation), but not -11.
I'll be glad to get a clarification on the matter.
Thank you!...

I am working on a program where i have to find if a point lies inside a circle and data for which is given by user. I have prepared my algorithm but i am struggling to quantify the data given by the user to a particular container like list or a dictionary. It has to be in the format like below and is passed via a file as a parameter.
Center: (2.12, -3.48); Radius: 17.22; Point: (16.21, -5)
I tried this code below
from sys import argv
file_name = argv[1]
fp = open(file_name,'r+')
contents = [line.strip('\n') for line in fp]
content = [item.split(' ') for item in contents]
#content = fp.read().split(';') #commented
print (contents, '\n' , content)
Output is:-
['Center: (2.12, -3.48); Radius: 17.22; Point: (16.21, -5)']
[['Center:', '(2.12', '-3.48);', 'Radius:', '17.22;', 'Point:', '(16.21,', '-5)']
So, clearly i am nowhere near to get those integer values to solve the problem. Al...

I'm a Cobol for Z/OS, AS/400, and I'm trying to learn new programming languages to do a few things at home. So I've picked up Python and started giving it a try.
But now I'm struck with a problem I can't understand why is happening, I've already researched a lot in many tutorials and in another questions about dictionaries around here, but still I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, any clarification be really appreciated.
So, what I'm trying to do is, I go into a page on a server using lxml, and return from it a list of texts, and their corresponding links, after that, I want to create a dictionary with both results(texts as keys and links as values), but things are not going on as I expected. Here is my actual code:
from lxml import html
import requests
page = requests.get('http://myexample.com.br/manga/')
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
namelist = tree.xpath('//div[@class="manga_list"]/ul/li/a/text()')
linklist = tree.xpath('//div[@class="manga...

If I have a string S of length n, and a list of tuples (a,b), where a specifies the staring position of the substring of S and b is the length of the substring. To check if any substring overlaps, we can, for example, mark the position in S whenever it's touched. However, I think this will take O(n^2) time if the list of tuples has a size of n (looping the tuple list, then looping S).
Is it possible to check if any substring actually overlaps with the other in O(n) time?
Edit:
For example, S = "abcde". Tuples = [(1,2),(3,3),(4,2)], representing "ab","cde" and "de". I want to the know an overlap is discovered when (4,2) is read.
I was thinking it is O(n^2) because you get a tuple every time, then you need to loop through the substring in S to see if any character is marked dirty....

biglist = []
for files in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
sublist = numpy.loadtxt(files).tolist()
biglist.extend(sublist)
return big_matrix
I am trying to add lists extracted from files to an accumulator list. After around 4k iterations, I got this:
TypeError: 'float' object is not iterable
The files are text files each containing a sequence of integers (5 multiples).
I don't know why the error occurs after so many successful iteration....

I have this code of mine which is actually uploading an image from my system and also creating an image with transparent background and then merging the two images. But now I want that I should provide user an option fro selecting the fonts from the list that I provide and should also be able to select color as per his choice from my given list of colors. I don't understand how to provide choice to the user for fonts and colour. Kindly suggest me some editing in my code.
<?php
//Set the Content Type
header("Content-type: image/png");
#dispaly the image
$file=$_GET['file'];
$text=$_GET["text"];
// echo file_get_contents($file);
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 400);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0 , 0, 0);
$blue = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);
imagecolortransparent($im, $black);
//text to draw
//$text="helllooooooooooooooooooooo";
//font path
$font = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSans.ttf';...

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